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social determinants Flashcards

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established national immigration quotas by origin

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immigration act of 1924

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abolished immigration quotas

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Hart-Cellar Act

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foreign nativity giving an advantage in morbidity and mortality

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immigrant paradox

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what is the selection reduce effect in the immigrant paradox?

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immigrants migrate or don’t based off of how healthy or not they are

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is the protective effect of the immigrant paradox observed across generations?

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protective effect is not sustained over time - both within and across the generation

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what are some possible explanations of apparent deterioration of health for immigrants with time in the US?

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selective return migration, changing expectations, increasing access to health care and diagnoses, acculturation

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the adoption of host country or dominant cultural norms, attitudes, and lifestyles

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acculturation

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What are the different models of acculturation?

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short acculturation scale for hispanics (marin and marin)

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what are some key critiques of the application of the concept of acculturation?

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rarely define, implicitly assumes linear processes of change with monolithic cultural entities, neglects structural favor, lacks a life course perspective, and usually approximated

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a theoretical framework that focuses on social and economic context and subgroup heterogeneity, with variable trajectories, with attention to social context, radicalization, SES, life course issues

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segmented assimilation

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imposition of racial categories and corresponding social meanings - perceived discrimination increases with tie in the US, reactive identity

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radicalization

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dark skinned individuals experience more interpersonal discrimination, and are therefore more stressed and have worse outcomes

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colorism

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what are some special considerations that should be taken into account when looking at the axes of SES measures for immigrants

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individual vs area; absolute vs relative; objective vs subjective

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what is subjective social status?

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how one’s social status changes after immigrating - often a 3-step decline in status

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what is a socially assigned race?

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the race that other people think you are - affects how you are perceived by others

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what is it mean to take a life course approach to immigrant health?

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have to also take into consideration historical context and the persons’ age at time of immigration

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What is an example of a sensitive period that may be particularly germane for immigrants?

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language acquisition and identity formation

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a biological construct premised upon biological characteristics enabling sexual reproduction

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sex

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social constructs regarding culture-bound conventions, roles, and behaviors for, as well as between and among

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gender

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gender and biological expressions of gender vary across…

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a continuum

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what are some problems associated the dominant approaches to gender and sex in public health?

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variation of sexual development, reductionism, excluding certain groups from studies

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what is the gender health paradox?

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gender social inequalities do not equal gender health inequalities - unlike other major axes of social stratification, male privilege does not translate into unambiguous health benefits for men

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which gender has the longer life expectancy?

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women

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what are some characteristics that could skew to the gender paradox?

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contexts characterized by low resources and highly patriarchal regimes, with skewed sex rations and missing women, and with gender based violence and eating disorders

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what does it mean to move beyond binary constructions of sex and gender?

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to view gender as a spectrum, and realize that there are also intersex individuals, or gender non-conforming people

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How can we explain the apparent gender health paradox?

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material, behavioral, and psychosocial/stress

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what are some ways in which material resources could explain the gender paradox?

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cohabitation and common interests in health mean that there is a lot of overlap in material resources

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what are the two sides of ambivalent sexism?

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hostile and benevolent -

29
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generalized ideological motive to justify the existed social order, often resulting in internalization of inferiority by members of disadvantaged groups

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hegemony

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What is durkeim’s theory of stigma?

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anomie - the intense feeling of not fitting into broader social order and norms

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What is goffman’s theory of stigma?

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it stems from an attribute that is deeply disturbing - a clash between virtual social identity and actual social identity, focused on relationship between normals and the exercise of social control

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What is the theory of stigma from link and phelan?

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stigma is a process whereby a label sets the labeled person apart from others, links the person to undesirable characteristics, and leads to rejection and discrimination

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what is the minority stress model

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additive (unique and different from general stressors), chronic (larger influences feeding into it that are persistent), socially based (rooted in larger society and institutions, parallel to institutional racism)

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What are some examples of distal events in minority stress model?

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objective stressful events, external

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What are some examples of some proximal events of the minority stress model?

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stress produced from within, internal

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what are some individual level factors that affect sexual minorities?

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rejection sensitivity that is stigma-based, concealment,

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What are some interpersonal factors that affect sexual minorities?

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abuse, rejection, discrimination

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What are some structural factors that affect sexual minorities?

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state policies, institutional practices

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what are some of the major methologial challenges of sexuality studies?

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selection or response bias, small samples and underpowered studies, precise mechanisms, fluidity of sexuality is not always captured

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What are some of the major finding of structural stigma research by hatzenbeuhler?

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states with at least one protective policy are associated with lower suicide rates

41
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how do social scientists characterize and define someone’s sexuality?

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sexual behavior, sexual attraction, and self-identification

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a concerted attempt by a group of people, beyond an individual, to agitate, advocate, or push collectively for longer term social change

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social movement

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how much money, networks, institutional capacity a social movement has

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resource mobilization

44
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timing of a social movement

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political opportunity

45
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wording phrases, images, rhetoric, narrative, and stories of social movements

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framing and culture

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what are the 3 common research traditions in social movements

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resource mobilization, political opportunity, framing and culture

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what is the difference between frame viability and frame validity?

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some framing terms are better at catching on, even if not accurate or misleading

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what are some challenges social movements must consider?

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conciliation confrontation or compromise problem; inside vs outside problem; fence sitter problem; coalition; producing real results;

49
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the theoretical framework that posits that multiple social categories intersect and the micro level of individual experience to reflect interlocking systems of privilege and opression

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intersectionality

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why is intersectionality harder to study?

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approach problematizes social categories as a binary, but must operationally rely on cross clarification of such categories

51
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adverse health outcomes that can arise from the intersection of high and low status - higher status along one axis does not necessarily confer and increased risk

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intersectionality paradox

52
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monetary transfers, conditional on compliance with requirements related to human capital, fertility, and health care

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conditional cash transfer programs

53
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incorporating attention to health into social and economic policies - holding institutions, actors, and policies outside of the health sector accountable for the impacts of actions on health outcomes

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health in all policies

54
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a combination of procedures, methods, and tools by which a policy, program, or project may be judges as to its potential effectst on the health of the population and the distribution of those effects

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who health impact assessment

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